(TAN): Singapore Airlines (SIA) will increase its capacity to Kolkata, India by flying to the city five times per week beginning March 29.
The airline will deploy its Airbus A350-900 medium haul aircraft, featuring 40 business class and 263 economy class seats, to operate the services.
“SIA’s A350-900 medium haul aircraft has been warmly received by customers since its introduction on the Singapore-Kolkata route in June 2019. We are pleased to increase our services to Kolkata with this new generation aircraft by adding a weekly frequency from March 2020,” Senior Vice President Marketing Planning, SIA, Tan Kai Ping said.
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Starting March 29, the carrier’s regional airline SilkAir, which presently operates three flights each week to Kolkata, will stop flying to the eastern Indian city. However, it will continue operating to four cities – Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kochi. SIA said travellers that have already reserved seats on SilkAir’s Kolkata flights on and after March 29 will be rebooked on SIA’s flights.
SIA, that so far operates four flights per week to Kolkata, also flies to five other Indian cities, including Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi and Ahmedabad.
Although SIA’s A350-900 will add another service to Kolkata, SilkAir stopping its flights would mean an overall capacity cut.
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According to the flight schedule from March 29 to October 24, 2020, flight SQ 516 will take off from Singapore on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2100 hours, local time and reach Kolkata at 2235 hours, local time.
On the other hand, flight SQ 517 will depart Kolkata on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2350 hours to land in Singapore at 0640 hours the next day.
